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E-LEARNING HUB PROPOSAL

Introducing an Interactive E-Learning Platform

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INTRODUCTION
Based on the powerful and highly secure Microsoft Office SharePoint Server platform, elearning's Learning Management System gives customers an opportunity for effective learning and quick assessments. MS SharePoint-based LMS has been successfully deployed both in business corporations and educational institutions. This proposed e-learning project presumes a school or institution is implementing Microsoft SharePoint collaboration and a web publishing tool. Elementary and secondary teachers alike will learn how to create a teacher website that includes a document manager, calendar, picture library, discussion boards, and announcements amongst other things. Majority of the teachers in schools and institutions have never heard the term SharePoint nor do they know what it is or does. Training teachers on how to utilize SharePoint will allow teachers to acquire another technology skill and empower them to grow professionally. This system will not only benefit these teachers, but students and parents alike. Currently, thereisnt a set standard on a web content management system. Teachers are using a mixture of free online web content management tools which creates a problem for the instructional technology department. They have no control over these free systems which, makes it difficult to manage. It is essential to successfully implement Microsoft SharePoint in institutions, as teachers need to get familiarized with the new program as quickly as possible or else they will never use the program to its full potential. This e-learning proposal will support the proper implementation of an e-learning platform, with the intention of creating some form of partnership with your learning institution.

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PURPOSE
Build an e-learning portal for educational institutions. To be used for learning and assessment purposes. Aid institutions in building and hosting of course contents. Institutions can subscribe either monthly, quarterly, half yearly, or yearly. To enhance people management through documentation and reporting.

BENEFITS
Some of the benefits of the implementation of this system include: Convenience: Anywhere, Everywhere access to resources. Parental access, where parents can see detailed information about their childs academic excellence and information about the childs courses. Re-usable content over the years with little or no update. Recording of attendance. Integrate with existing IT infrastructure. Extremely user-friendly; ease of use. Ability to customize, build content, and add to it. Delivers the tools required for developing institutional learning strategies. Manages all learning activities from defining and developing courses and content to deploying and tracking learning. See the features table below for more benefits.

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WHY A SHAREPOINT-BASED LMS?

Yes, you may know that you need an LMS, but why should you choose an LMS based on SharePoint? Its simple. The core requirements you need of an LMS are the very strengths of SharePoint. First, SharePoint allows the LMS to integrate with your other IT and Business Systems; and, it provides architecture for maximum expandability, customization and scalability. Second, SharePoint is recognized for its strength in work-flows and document management and these are the very foundational requirements for any LMS. Finally, SharePoint provides your users a rich, comfortable, and familiar user environment that is accessible anytime, anywhere as long as the user can reach the web. SharePoint is the foundation for the core learning management structure that a modern LMS requires without reinventing it. Microsoft is right to market SharePoint as both an Application Platform and Operating System for Information.With E-learning Hub, you can deliver a critical need business application to one department or to the whole enterprise. We are very pleased to announce that E-learning Hub is compatible with both SharePoint 2007 and 2010.Leverage the investment you have already made in SharePoint, and accelerate your time to results. You may be asking yourself, I thought Microsoft had released the SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK) to the market as an LMS? This is a common misconception. While Microsofts SLK is an excellent example of how SharePoint can be used in the Education Process for Corporate and Academic environments, it was never designed to be a full-featured LMS. If you want a real LMS that is ready out of the box, there is no better choice than E-learning Hub.

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E-learning Hub is the unlimited LMS. Why?

Simple! E-learning Hubs functionality goes beyond the basic Manage, Distribute and Track functionality, and it is loaded with features designed specifically for the business customer. Most LMSs have their legacy in Academic markets, and most have found it very difficult to adapt the architecture and work-flows required of corporations.

FEATURES
GENERAL Create individual courses and manage them by organizing them into multiple level categories. Design course templates that make creation of courses easy. Set course publishing period. Course import and export. Allow users to request to join courses. Complete syllabus to show course outline, study plans and other relevant course information. Offer parental access where parents can see detailed

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information about their childs academic excellence and information about the childs courses. Office Hours feature that allows reserving time for meetings and tracking user timetables and appointments calendar

ASSESSMENTS

COURSE ADMINISTRATION

COURSE MATERIALS

Advanced quiz and survey tool with many possible question types and settings. Shared or individual question database with question pools. Customized Learning paths created, managed and evaluated directly in the LMS. Create, deliver, receive and correct learner assignments inside the LMS without wasting time and paper. Advanced customisable grade book that records grades given in quizzes, assignments, learning path, and custom items. Includes an Average Weighted Grade column in the grade book and set an auto completion setting. Customizable course page Complete Roster and Staff feature showing learner and staff information. Advanced seating chart with possibility to arrange seats in a classroom and keep track of students. Track students and teachers activities on the course page and check who is the most active, what tools are most used and much more. Report feature to create custom reports about learner activities and results. Use certificate templates for the course, individual quizzes and learning paths. Send announcements quickly and easily to a single course or all of your courses/classes from a single location. Course calendar that can be synchronised with Microsoft Outlook. Recording of attendance. Shared document library to organize resources. Link to documents outside your SharePoint LMS course and multimedia content on your multimedia server. Wiki-page library with internal links to the different pages for your own personal course knowledge base.

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COLLABORATION AND COMMUNICATION

COURSE WEB PARTS

PLATFORM AVAILABILITY

Group sub sites with own set of tools to facilitate collaboration between students. Build in chat function to communicate instantly at the course site. Internal mailbox that collect all information about the course inside the course site. Multi-level discussion board to organize classroom discussions. Online Conferencing tool integrate to Microsoft Live Meeting with single sign-on Internal course mailbox. SharePoint LMS comes with a long list of web parts to put on any page in SharePoint, e.g. the course front page, LMS front page and My Sites. A selection of possible web parts are: Composite calendar Assignments My Grades My Groups Announcements High scalability Access via standard Internet Browsers User Administration in SharePoint Active Directory or Form Based Authentication. Security identification/validation and Single sign on with Active Directory. E-mail notification Exporting materials to Spreadsheets Content/Document Search Centralized administration of entire system Teacher and Student personal websites.

The product, called ShareKnowledge, is a learning management system in function, which is delivered as dozens of pre-integrated and coordinated SharePoint web-parts. Below are a couple of screenshots of what content pages resemble.

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The My Learning Tab is the home base for users. Here the user is presented with a personalized, unified catalog of your institutions learning materials. Learning Materials may be standard office documents, SCORM courses created in-house or externally, or Compound Courses, which are bundles of multiple items presented to the learner as a Curriculum to take as part of a learning plan.

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Why do we call the catalog a Personalized Unified Catalog? As you will see, the catalog list has personalized information on the due date and status of the learner who is logged in, including if the course is required or recommended. The green text highlights when a course has been completed, and the red text highlights when the due date has passed.

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In the My Enrollments section, the User can get a summary of all courses and training activities completed to date under the Completed tab. It also provides information on the results.

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First and foremost, the LMS needs to be focused on the end user experience. Almost all LMSs have moved to a web-based architecture, but this is where functionality meets diversity. Foundational to e-Learning is ACCESS to the LMS. Supporting multiple browsers and operating systems is no longer a luxury, it is a requirement.

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In keeping with the importance of the end-user, we are proud to present E-learning Hubs new SCORM player template. It provides a simplified and rich presentation for users when taking courses created in the any Content Author or quick test creation tools. E-learning Hub is also SCORM compliant, allowing you to import content from other LMSs and authoring tools, such as Articulate or Captivate, two of the industry's most popular choices.

CONCLUSION
The benefits of implementing this system have clearly been stated out. Amongst other things, this e-learning hub will focus on training elementary and secondary teachers to create a teacher website that includes a document manager, calendar, picture library, discussion boards, and announcements using Microsoft SharePoint collaborationand web publishing tool. Teachers will learn how SharePoint isuser friendly, and resembles a home page on familiar social networking sites, such asFacebook. SharePoint allows each user to customize a teacher web site home page withinformation about the user's interests, goals, and objectives. SharePoint houses thecontent and provides a platform for accessibility, version control, and contentorganization. SharePoint supports collaboration and it is compatible with differentInternet browsers.

Thank you for your time and consideration of E-learning Hub. Ask us for a personal demonstration or trial environment.